nScrypt announces the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,707,889 (‘889 patent). The ‘889 patent, entitled “Modular Mobile Direct Digital Manufacturing Systems,” covers a modular system for direct digital manufacturing in a shipping container using various equipment connected to a locally or remotely operated control system, including a 3D printer, furnace, oven, modular power and network connection grid, and temperature, positioning, and operational sensors. The 3D printer may have the ability to process high or low temperature
thermoplastics, but – depending on user machine choice — the 3D printer could process any materials, including metals and ceramics. In addition to a 3D printer, the system may also have 3D manufacturing elements, including a pick and place system for electronic components, and a bioreactor. If the container is outfitted with an nScrypt Factory in a Tool, it can 3D manufacture fully functioning electronic devices.
The self-contained modular system may be collapsible and have:
- electrostatic discharge flooring
- an integrated WiFi, LiFi, or satellite communications system
- ultraviolet lighting
- HVAC system
- solar power or multi-fuel power system
- secure file transactions, including blockchain storage and transmission
- radio frequency (RF) shielding
- drone landing platform
According to nScrypt’s CEO, Dr. Ken Church, who is one of the patent’s inventors, “The shipping-containerized direct digital manufacturing system covered by this patent fulfills 3D printing’s promise of regional, local, and distributed manufacturing close in time and place to the point of need. It meets both commercial and military needs for mobile, rapidly deployable, and rapidly reconfigurable modular on-site manufacturing capable of responding in real time to immediately changing demands, and to do so autonomously if necessary. It can house any type of 3D printer, work with any type of material, run on any type of power, and securely communicate using any type of digital communication. With a system covered by this patent anyone can 3D manufacture almost anything, anywhere, anytime.”
nScrypt patents are available for licensing under mutually favorable terms. On this point, Dr. Church says: “We want to see 3D manufacturing and printed electronics move forward as an industry, with innovation lifting all boats, without patents getting in the way.”
About nScrypt
nScrypt designs and manufactures award-winning, next-generation, high-precision microdispensing, 3D Manufacturing equipment and provides solutions for industrial applications with unmatched accuracy and flexibility. Serving the printed electronics, electronics packaging, communications, printed antenna, chemical/pharmaceutical, defense, space, and 3D printing industries, our systems are widely used in the military, at academic and research institutes, within government agencies and national labs, and in private industry.
Our line of 3D manufacturing systems are high-precision motion platforms that can be customized to meet your application needs. Taking traditional 3D printing to the next level, our machines offer traditional manufacturing options (material agnostic dispensing/milling/drilling/polishing), pick and place, up to 1.5m x1.5m area, +- 1.5 μm
accuracy, 4/5/6 axis functionality, conformal printing capabilities, digital control, high speed, automatic tool changes and extreme multi curved surfaces. nScrypt enables the user to go directly from CAD file to a fully functioning product, complete with electronics, without manual tool changes. nScrypt’s headquarters are in Orlando, Florida.
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